香港之旅

還記得上次去香港是2002年
7年後的香港變好多喔
服務品質變高了
空氣也很乾淨
雖然天氣沒有想像中的冷
可是還是覺得很不錯
每一次出國啊... 都感觸良多
這次也不例外啦
不多說了... 看照片吧!
你相信命運嗎﹖以前我相信。
現在卻懷疑了。是巧合吧。
可是﹐有這麼巧嗎﹖如果當初的選擇改變了...
今天又會如何﹖
Do you believe in destiny? I used to believe in it.
But now i'm in doubt. I think it should be coincidence instead.
But, is it really coincidence? If the choice made had changed that time...
What will it be today?
(as requested.)

最近一直想要的...
雖然不是很美觀...
可是它能讓我解除身體的疲憊...
它會從天上掉下來給我嗎?
自由的定義是什麼?
你給的自由是我該快樂的嗎?
還是我錯了?
i have been wanting to have this...
although it's not that appealing...
but it might be able to relieve body fatigues...
will it drop from heaven to be mine?
what is freedom?
will i be happier with the freedom you gave?
or i am wrong?
Origin
The legend has been handed down for nearly 2 millennia. The story has been recorded as far back as the Jin Dynasty (256-420 AD). Poets composed hundreds of verses on the love story and many types of Chinese opera tell the story.
The Chinese people believe that the star Vega, east of the Milky Way, is Zhi Nu and, at the constellation of Aquila, on the western side of the Milky Way, Niu Lang waits for his wife.
Zhi Nu was said to be the youngest of seven daughters of the Queen of Heaven. With her sisters, she worked hard to weave beautiful clouds in the sky, while Niu Lang was a poor orphan cowherd, driven out of his home by his elder brother and his cruel wife.
Niu Lang lamented over his lonely and poor life with an old cow, his only friend and companion. The magical cow kindly told him of a way to find a beautiful and nice woman as his life companion.
Under the direction of the cow, Niu Lang went to the riverside on an evening, where the seven fairies slipped out of their heavenly palace to bathe.
He took one of the beautiful silk dresses the fairies had left on the bank. When the fairies left the water, the youngest couldn't find her clothes and had to see her sisters fly back to heaven without her.
Then Niu Lang came out with the dress and asked the youngest fairy, Zhi Nu, to stay with him.
Several years passed on Earth, which were only a few days in heaven. Niu Lang and Zhi Nu lived happily together and had two children before the Queen of Heaven discovered Zhi Nu's absence.
She was so annoyed she had Zhi Nu brought back to heaven. Seeing his beloved wife flying in the sky, Niu Lang was terrified. He caught sight of the cowhide hanging on a wall. The magical cow had told him before dying of old age: "Keep the cowhide for emergency use."
Putting the cowhide on, he went after his wife with his two children.
With the help of the cowhide, Niu Lang was able to follow Zhi Nu into heaven. He was about to reach his wife when the Queen showed up and pulled off her hairpin to draw a line between the two. The line became the Silver River in heaven, or the Milky Way.
Zhi Nu went back to the heavenly workshop, going on weaving the clouds. But she was so sad, and missed her husband across the Silver River so much that the clouds she weaved seemed sad. Finally, the Queen showed a little mercy, allowing the couple to meet once every year on the Silver River.
Celebration
The seventh day of the seventh lunar month is the only Chinese festival devoted to love in the Lunar calendar.
Unlike St. Valentine's Day in Western countries there is not so much emphasis on giving chocolates, flowers and kisses. Instead, Chinese girls prepare fruits, melons and incense as offerings to Zhi Nu, the weaving maiden, praying to acquire high skills in needlecraft, as well as hoping to find satisfactory husbands.
In the evening, people sit outdoors to observe the stars. Chinese grannies would say that, if you stand under a grapevine, you can probably overhear what Zhi Nu and Niu Lang are talking about.
最近比較忙... 而且生活也有很多改變
最近也瘦了很多... 有喜有悲
人生就這麼的奇怪也多樣化
人呢就這麼的善變也惹人討厭
has been quite busy recently... and everyday has been very different
lost some quite too... with happiness and sorrow
Life is strange and full of changes
and human, full of changes too and sometimes irritating
haha (i dont even know what i'm writing)

看了不少照片和攝影的書集﹐我已真正了解攝影的秘密。
也不算是什麼秘密啦... 只不過了解了光﹑倒影﹑影子和主題對攝影的重要性。
剛才選了兩張在越南和尼伯爾拍的照片參加了Traveler Photographer of The Year 2009 的比賽。
雖然覺得自己有點不知量力... 可是還是決定拼了﹗
我至今學攝影只有四個月﹐就厚著臉皮參加了國際比賽...
你們就幫我加油吧﹗^^
After viewing tons of photographs and reading lots of books on photography, i realised the real secret of photography.
actually it's not really secret... it's just about the importance of light, reflection, shadows and subject in photography.
i've just submitted two photographs taken in Vietnam and Nepal for TPOTY 2009 competition.
This is an international competition and I've decided to go for it!
I've learnt photography for four months now, and I have to be thick-skinned to take part in this international competition...
Please give me your blessings! :P

雖然拿了第二﹐可是還是很開心。
認識了新朋友也學了很多很多...
照片能在 http://www.flickr.com/photos/jamierayn/sets/72157618238605851/ 看得到
although we came in second, but i'm still feel happy.
Getting to know new friends and learned alot alot.
Photos can be viewed from http://www.flickr.com/photos/jamierayn/sets/72157618238605851/

我回來了 超累也讓我有了很多感想
我感謝這次尼伯爾之旅所發生的事
我學到也了解了很多很多
我知道這之後我會更堅強我會更勇敢
我會更努力
我也做了選擇
尼伯爾的山景很漂亮可惜城市的生活太辛苦了
希望他們能幸福快樂的生活 ^^
I'm back from Nepal. It's very tiring but enriching.
I'm thankful for all the happenings during the trip.
I've learnt and understand alot of things.
I know I will be stronger and brave thereafter.
I will be more hardworking
I also made my choice.
Nepal's mountain scene is beautiful, but the city life is much too difficult.

生日快到了... 又老了一歲 ><"
今天選擇在國外渡過一年一度的生日
也沒什麼期待啦... 就希望能夠過得不一樣
很感謝我可愛的好友團在3月29日幫我慶生
可惜Karyn沒來﹐可是沒關係禮物有到就好... 哈哈哈﹗
Birthday is coming again... i'm one year older ><"
this year i choose to spend my birthday overseas
though i dont have any expectations... just hoped it will be different
Thanks to my lovely friends for celebrating my birthday on 29 March
too bad Karyn didn't make it, but its ok... as long the present is here.. haha!
A shot taken from Huiling's house.

Just now on my way home, I was reflecting on why am I picked up photography?
That moment, an answer surfaced from my brain nerves. “The earth is changing
on every second”. Thus, photography is something that allows us to capture
every moment of scene during that one second, and you might not get to see
that for the second time in your lifetime.
On the same journey back home, in the bus, I saw a gradient of yellow to
blue tone spread across the sky and the reflections of the buildings cast
neatly onto the canal water surface. The building structures against the
gradient light, turned silhouette. This picture is perfect. And you know what?
I hated myself to core at that moment. As I do not have my camera with me!
That feeling was like kneeing under the spotlight, grieving.
Nevertheless, this lesson teaches us that we should treasure every single
moment of life whenever we can.
Also, today I received news about a colleague from other workplace had passed
on after having a heart attack. Though I don’t really know him in person but I
still respect him as who he is. Rest in peace, Sir.

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